The East is a Podcast
Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)
A critical lens on the history of the present on West Asia and North Africa. Interviews with experts and archival mashups.
Created by Sina Rahmani (twitter: @urorientalist)
Created by Sina Rahmani (twitter: @urorientalist)
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May 29, 2019 • 22min
Mo Salah, Baby! w/ Jacob Klusmeier, Sam Huston, Willie Klemmer
Another very special episode produced by three students at Whitman College as part of Arash Davari's Middle East Politics course. This episode explores the strange case of "good immigrant" Mohamed Salah. Thank you to Arash Davari and Whitman's Politics Department for their support of this experimental project. If you are an educator and want to try teaching your students about podcasting, please feel free to get in touch. Please consider supporting the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com
May 25, 2019 • 29min
"We can't fit all these people in jails" w/ Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé is Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. Please consider supporting the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com
May 23, 2019 • 22min
Playing with the Lion's Tail
A short mashup on the Millennium Challenge 2002. #nowarwithIran Please consider supporting the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com
May 17, 2019 • 1h
The Abbas Kiaorostami Mixtape
It's been almost three years since the death of Abbas Kiarostami, one of the titans of modern cinema. Included in this episode is a tribute by Martin Scorsese as well as a portion of a long sit-down interview with Kiarostami at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016.
May 15, 2019 • 34min
The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 4) - The Nakba
Edward Said sharing his memories of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine (Nakba, catastrophe), marked annually by people around the world on May 15th. Music Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRcMrcMHTk
May 14, 2019 • 36min
This is a not a podcast w/ Celeste Barry, Scout Hutchinson, Caleb Sherman
A very special episode produced by three students at Whitman College as part of Arash Davari's Middle East Politics course. This episode explores both the overwhelmingly negative portrayal of Iranians in American pop culture/news media and how to undo it by engaging Iranians both as individuals and a national culture. Thank you to Arash Davari and Whitman's Politics Department for their support of this experimental project. If you are an educator and want to try teaching your students about podcasting, please feel free to get in touch. Please consider supporting the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com
May 13, 2019 • 49min
Isa Blumi - "Yemen: Beyond the Mainstream" (2018)
Dr. Isa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. This talk was given at a public event at the University of Copenhagen organized by The Turban Times in May 2018
May 13, 2019 • 6min
(Preview) Bonus Episode 19 - Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
A sneak preview of Reza Zia-Ebrahimi's bonus episode. Sign up for the Patreon to gain access to this and other great bonus content. https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com
May 7, 2019 • 1h 10min
Citizen of Nowhere w/Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi is Senior Lecturer in History at King's College, London. Please consider supporting the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com
May 1, 2019 • 46min
A seminar on the Franklin Book Program w/ Levi Thompson
This episode of The East Is A Podcast is brought to you by students from Levi Thompson’s University of Colorado Boulder course Representing Islam. In it, they cover the operations of the Franklin Book Program, an American book-publishing and translation initiative that operated in the Middle East from 1953 to 1979. Levi and his students examine the program as an instance of American soft power within the context of Cold War cultural imperialism and give listeners a number of bibliographical notes for further investigation. https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com
